‘Everyone got stuck in TO HELP’
Determined to save up a decent deposit so I could buy my first home with my fiancé Chris, I was the last of my friends to leave home,’ says Jade. ‘Our family and friends are all local, so we knew we wanted to stay in the area, and because we are both fairly handy we were happy to wait for the perfect doer-upper to come along.
Once we’d saved up enough, it took us four months to find this place. It was a bit of a wreck when we first saw it, but we could see straight away that it had potential. The decor was really old-fashioned, with floral carpets and brightly painted walls
